If I may suggest, it might be prudent to back off a little bit on all of the emails and phone calls that we now send to ESPN regarding referring to us properly.
Now that the league office is out of it, we can get things done, but not if we continue to bombard the ESPN guys.
Joe Davis is not the enemy here. He is a good guy trapped in the middle of this.
The only name that matters is being called winner when the night is over. I don't care if they ULL us all night long as long as we win. Being called Louisiana is meaningless if we do not win the game and in fact will cause us to look foolish if we do not win as our focus will have been misplaced. Fortunately, I am sure Coach Hud and the team are not worried about this issue, but are zeroed in on what it takes to defeat the Red Wolves. That should also be where we as a a fanbase should put our energy for the next few hours.
My answer.Remember when we went to Omaha? Remember what ESPN called us the first couple of days? They called us Louisiana all of the time. They listed us as Louisiana on the TV. Then, they stopped. They stopped because of the flooding of complaints they were receiving from LSU and their minions.
Ever since then we have gotten the shaft from ESPN regarding our name. I believe it is because ESPN will always side with their cash cows, schools like LSU.
I'm kind of to the point I'd rather our athletic department and university concentrate more on building a successful athletic program than worry about the name thing so much.
Win enough nationally televised games, keep an undefeated bowl record, beat some BCS schools, and they'll start calling us what we want.
So while I may get labeled a debbie-downer, if we win tonight, I'll be happy regardless what they call us. If it ends up being a repeat of last year, they can call us Louisiana all night, and I honestly won't give a rat's ___.
I spoke to my friend who is the associate director of the Sun Belt conference and he just about echoes everything said here. He swears that the Sun Belt has always said "it's cool, call them what they want." But ESPN has their own agendas and when word got out on Twitter, they just wanted to make it abudantly clear.
He also saiddont hold your breath in thinking ESPN will suddenly roll over, they will still do what they want.
This, and thislets focus on the game and see what ESPN does tonight. Our players and coaches are in full battle mode by now.we should do the sameeven if we are not at the game tonight or watching at the local sports bar.EVERYONE.I MEAN EVERYONE wear Ragin' RED tonight.Geaux Cajuns!!!!! This one is ours!!!!!
Winning and promoting Lafayette College at the same time is not an option.
Let them soak in the new SBC stance.
I have what I think to be justified confidence in the UL SID to distribute the message properly.
I am not saying 100% desired results will occur on such short notice tonight, but combined with the fan effort over the last week, I think the Midas touch from the SID would be most effective tonight.
jmo
Am I the only one who sees "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" after the bolded quote? If the Conference was REALLY ok with Louisiana for us, they would have changed their website long ago, and sent out memos to all media outlets that the only acceptable branding is "Louisiana".
This little leak today is just to shut us up for a while.
True, but they wont be able to hide behind "the conference made us do it" excuse.
And their "we dont want anyone to be confused because of two schools in the same region or conference" flies in the face of their use of UNLV and Nevada. I don't think too many folks are confused about the diffeence between the Running Rebels and the Wolfpack. I wonder if Joe Davis called any Nevada games?
There are currently 80 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 80 guests)